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Australian Education Survey 2013

The results of the OECD's first international survey of adult skills shows that Australian adults perform very well compared to other developed countries when it comes to literacy skills, but when it comes to numeracy the performance is only average.

What is surprising, when reviewing the table below, is the relatively poor performance of some other English-speaking developed countries, such as the US, UK and Canada to a lesser degree. In most situations, these results are academic, unless they signal significant deficiencies in the country's education standards, but they can be more important for expatriates, where ensuring that their children's education remains of high-quality is usually the number one priority.

Literacy Ranking ((16-65 year olds)

Numeracy Ranking (16-65 year olds)

Japan

Japan

Finland

Finland

Netherlands

Sweden

AUSTRALIA

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

Norway

Denmark

Estonia

Slovak Republic

Flanders (Belgium)

Flanders (Belgium)

Czech Republic

Czech Republic

Slovak Republic

Austria

Canada

Germany

Korea

Estonia

UK

AUSTRALIA

Denmark

Canada

Germany

Korea

US

UK

Austria

Poland

Cyprus

France

Poland

Ireland

Ireland

Cyprus

France

US

Spain

Italy

Italy

Spain

More interesting comparative information can be found on the OECD website.